Others
- Douglas Brei, sports historian
- Obadiah Bush, ancestor of the Bush financial and political family
- Ed Edmondson, chess arbiter
- Jon Finkel, Magic: The Gathering champion
- Jerome Fuller, jurist
- Gideon Granger, U.S. Postmaster General under Thomas Jefferson
- Seth Green, pioneer in fish farming
- Mary Jemison, the White Lady of the Genesee
- Thomas Krens, former director, current senior adviser, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Increase A. Lapham, "Father" of the United States Weather Service
- Christopher Lasch, historian
- Belva Ann Lockwood, first female attorney to practice before the Supreme Court
- Nathaniel Rochester, city founder
- Blanche Stuart Scott, first American aviatrix
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